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Wuthering Heights (Bloom's Reviews)

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When Cathy's father brings home a dirty orphan, she doesn't know what to think. She comes to know the boy and befriends him, while her brother treats him badly. A couple months later, Cathy's father dies, and her brother is left head of the house. He makes Heathcliff, the boy who was taken in, a servant. As they get older Cathy and Heathcliff fall in love. Until one day, Cathy goes away and doesn't come back for a while. When she finally comes back to visit, she has fallen in love with Edgar Linton, a rich, upperclass man. This makes Heathcliff extremely jealous. When Cathy is lying on her deathbed, she tells Heathcliff she loves him, and when she dies Heathcliff tells her to haunt him and never leave him. This story is a great tale of undying love and the extents people will go for the one they love. The story had many interesting twists, but the ending left me satisfied.

Cathy's dad brings home a Heathcliff, an orphin he found in the streets one day and lets him live with the family. A couple of months later Cathy's father dies and her brother makes him the family servant. Cathy and Heathcliff are secretly in love but it would never work out. Cathy moves away and gets married and comes back home and visits. She realizes her love for Heathcliff and things start getting intereasting. I liked the book. I liked the book because it was very romantic. The plot had interesting twists and turns but I still was satisfied with the ending.

hey well this book is obviously for those who have matured enough to experience true love or at least understand the power of it. if you can't appreciate this book, you are either a high schooler forced to read it by your english teacher or a person who has not found THE ONE. once your situation changes, re-read this. it's worth it.

the unknowledgeable who said the book is a waste of time(look above) have no clue how to comprehend this book. it is a book that showed me all facets of life. it is about true love, and the power it can have on us--good or bad. this book is about manipulation, power struggles, and blind love. many of the relationships in this book are created out of spite, ignorance, or greed. this book showed me that love can create more emotions than just happiness. it can be wild and unruley also.

This book was exceptionally well written. It is terrible how the majority of books are all happy and perky and there is never a cloud in the sky. In this book, Bronte snapped me back to the reality that there is unhappiness in the world andyou have to live with it. She showed that love lasts through all darkness and bad situations. So if you are looking for a good historic love story, but not a "Happily Ever After" this is your best bet.

Cathy's dad brings home a Heathcliff, an orphin he found in the streets one day and lets him live with the family. A couple of months later Cathy's father dies and her brother makes him the family servant. Cathy and Heathcliff are secretly in love but it would never work out. Cathy moves away and gets married and comes back home and visits. She realizes her love for Heathcliff and things start getting interesting. I liked the book. I liked the book because it was very romantic. The plot had interesting twists and turns but I still was satisfied with the ending.

Don't believe the reviews posted by semi-literate highschool children. Yes, the book can be difficult to get into, and the narrative structure demands a reader's full attention -- skim a few pages, and you're likely to get lost in confusion . But the initial effort is well worth it. This is the mama of all soap operas, and more. Catherine is the embodiment of every woman's wild side and Heathcliff is the gypsy devil that lurks in every man. These characters are us, before we evolved and became civilized... at least on the outside.

Let me set the scene for you:

Out in the wild English countryside in the late 1700's, two families of what was then called "the landed gentry" live a few miles from eachother. Up on the windswept bluffs is the crumbling house called Wuthering Heights; down in the sheltered valley is the well-kept Thrushcross Grange. The residents of the Heights are as tempestuous as their surroundings: Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw live there with their two children, bad-tempered Hindley and wild young Catherine. Raised alongside the Earnshaw children is the interloper, Heathcliff, an orphan Gypsy boy that Mr. Earnshaw adopts out of kindness and quickly comes to favor above his own kids. Heathcliff and Catherine are the best of friends and run wild together on the moors, but Hindley is consumed by jealousy and hatred of the other boy, and when his parents die Hindley uses his new authority to turn Heathcliff into a lowly servant-boy. Heathcliff's obsessive devotion to Catherine is matched only by his seething hatred of her brother, on whom he vows vengeance.

Meanwhile, down at the Grange, life is much more sedate. There, the prim and spoiled (but very handsome) children of Mr. and Mrs. Linton live in luxury amid feather pillows and toy poodles and such. Eventually, as you might expect, young fair-haired Edgar Linton becomes smitten with his spirited neighbor Catherine. She falls for his curly locks and good manners, but is still held by her fierce attachment to the glowering, dark Heathcliff -- who, she realizes, has a heart as passionate and unforgiving as her own.

A savage storm, a disappearance, and a marriage ensue. Everything is settled, and old heartaches and jealousies are clearly a thing of the past. But one night, an unexpected caller comes to see Mistress Catherine -- and suddenly the past is resurrected, and destiny is set in motion...

I am a junior in high school and liked Wuthering Heights. The constant change of narrators makes the book confusing, but overall it IS worth the time. The book illustrates that life is not always a dream. Wuthering Heights show reality, confusion, and misguided love. It portrays that human imperfections can prevent happiness in life, and how true emotions are the window to a person's soul. This book illustrates that life does not follow a person's plans, and that life is not always perfect.

I have to say that this piece of literature is truly a classic in its own right. One couldn't consider it a love story or even a tragedy, and it comes out defining its own style. The only problem is I had to read it great haste, because the thesis paper on the book is due today!

Wuthering Heights is a truly classic piece of work which releases the reader from the conventional constraints of everyday life. It is a story of great passion and demonstrates the existence of great emotional impulses. I enjoyed it because it showed me that there is an underlying existence in everybody, that single-minded impulses are not condemnable. Yet Bronte achieves this in a subtle yet powerful way, using the setting to support the theme and thus giving the novel a resonance that will stay with the reader forever. If you can get past the complicated structure you will find a novel that gives you endless pleasure. I should know, I've read it 7 times now!